The Metatechnical Cabinet
Welcome to the Metatechnical Cabinet! As the name indicates, you can gaze at many different technical devices:
To the left, there's the large watch movement collection and a several further pages about mechanical wristwatches.
In the middle, you can browse the large radio and frequency collection with current and historical bandscans and logs, with pages about several radios and some interesting construction manuals for DXers.
On the right, you can dig into my expanding pocket calculator collection, which provides an extensive insight into the development of a device, which was once expensive and interestringly constructed, but which is more or less worthless today.
In the rest of the cabinet, you can find a few articles about my computers, my programs and some funny findings.
Have fun!
Updates
| Watch movement pages | |
|---|---|
| 2010-03-09 | Orient G11: A well made, 21j movement from Japan, probably even from the Seiko factories. |
| 2010-03-09 | HPP 602: A simple 17j pallet lever movement of Roskopf type with indirectly driven center second, made by Henzi & Pfaff in Germany. |
| 2010-03-07 | ZIM 2608: A pretty high building russian movement with breguet hairspring and directly driven center second. |
| 2010-03-06 | AM 395: A nice and classy 16 jewel swiss lever movement with indirect center second. |
| 2010-02-27 | Brac 2003: A very well made pin lever movement with an unusual center second construction.. |
| 2010-02-18 | EB 8503-76: A very odd looking movement from the Ebauches Bettlach. |
| 2010-02-07 | The 454 detailled described movement is the prime father of the modern ETA selfwinding movements: The ETA 1256 from 1950. |
| 2010-01-09 |
The FHF 190, an unusually constructed form movement, is the 450th detailled shown
movement (#486 of the archive) in the archive and now online.
Since the beginning of this year, (almost) all movements are described even more detailled and also tested on a timegrapher. |
| 2010-01-01 | The new year starts with a new function: After a long time, it is finally possible to use the new visual search for finding movements according to their visual attributes. |
| 2009-12-31 | Movement number 481 (445 with images) closes the year 2009. For the next year, an important enhancement of the movement archive is in progress. |
| 2009-08-30 | "Summer break" finishing soon, and here
are the first updates:
Movement #450 (#409 with pictures) is online! |
| 2009-06-28 | In the meantime, movement #444 (#403 with pictures) is online! |
| 2009-06-07 | The movement number 435 (the 394th movement with images) is another very important movement: The Felsa 415, called "Bidynator" started the era of modern selfwindig movements in the 1940ies. |
| 2009-05-03 | After larger internal reworkings, movement number 428 (the 387th movement with images) has been put online. |
| Everything else | |
|---|---|
| 2009-06-13 | FM bandscan pages: New page with Sporadic E logs and map; new bandscan from the Blomberg near Bad Tölz |
| 2009-02-28 | FM bandscan pages: New scans from Wolkenstein in South Tyrol and Innsbruck and new transmitter photos from south tyrol. |